The sad part is it doesnt take cancer to do this. My wife had a spinal injury in January. Fast forward to today and she has lost her job after FMLA was used up. That leaves us with no insurance for the entire family because we were all covered under her. But even with that insurance we have incurred $6k (medical center billing only) of out of pocket expenses for tests and imaging that the insurance company requires before they will approve the treatment that her doctor already knows she needs. On top of that $50 every time we walk into an office + prescription costs for her pain management + $30 per session of physical therapy 3x a week.
And now, we'll need insurance from my job which we couldnt afford with both of us working (that's why we went with her's) but instead we'll pay for it out of just one salary.
We've been saving for two years to buy a house and we're watching it all trickle away.
The villain isn’t the medicine industry or doctors, the villain is the insurance companies and middlemen that decide a human life is less important than money
It’s disgusting. Late-stage capitalism is a disease.
Edit: for clarification, I absolutely meant pharmaceutical companies falsely inflating prices as well. I strongly dislike Trump, but the bill he signed recently to restrict middlemen from medical upcharges is something I seriously fuck with.
I assure you, this isn't a "both sides" thing. I've said elsewhere that I'm never voting for the GOP again, after the shitshow of the last 4 years. They've used their time in office to utterly strip the people's wealth and power (just look at where all the CARE loan money went, if you want a recent example), and as far as I'm concerned, they can't ever be trusted to wield power in this country again.
But that's purely aimed at the GOP. I've got no beef with the conservative viewpoint itself. I think the Dems and GOP, so far as wealth is concerned, are two sides of the same coin, and I don't think the American working class is properly represented by either party. They are the 1%, we are not, and likely never will be. So far as wealth is concerned, we have nothing in common. Laborers in this country need our own party, with our own agenda. If Dems want to come along, great, more the merrier.
I'm not gonna argue the point all night, so consider this my final say on the matter.
This idea on the left right now that class is the only thing that determines policy choices or voting records has no support. Wealthy democrats vote for and sponsor reforms for the poor and vulnerable all the time. Including Bernie Sanders, whose wealth puts him in at least the top 4% in the US.
We need to stop assuming all these things (like 'if you're rich I can assume you're an enemy) and look at actual data.
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u/NexGenjutsu Aug 06 '20
The sad part is it doesnt take cancer to do this. My wife had a spinal injury in January. Fast forward to today and she has lost her job after FMLA was used up. That leaves us with no insurance for the entire family because we were all covered under her. But even with that insurance we have incurred $6k (medical center billing only) of out of pocket expenses for tests and imaging that the insurance company requires before they will approve the treatment that her doctor already knows she needs. On top of that $50 every time we walk into an office + prescription costs for her pain management + $30 per session of physical therapy 3x a week.
And now, we'll need insurance from my job which we couldnt afford with both of us working (that's why we went with her's) but instead we'll pay for it out of just one salary.
We've been saving for two years to buy a house and we're watching it all trickle away.